CorePower Yoga·Goleta, California
The CorePower Yoga Instructor is responsible for delivering an extraordinary experience by guiding students through CPY-aligned classes, ensuring student safety, and embodying core values. Instructors also manage front desk duties, including check-ins and POS transactions, while actively connecting with the student community before and after classes.
The CorePower team is the heartbeat of the company. We prioritize our people first, and we are invested the employee experience so that together we can create an experience powerful enough to transform lives, including our own. We believe in the power of human connection, community, and going beyond the transactional to make a positive difference in people’s lives. Join our team and discover what happens when you ignite your intention to make a difference.
We are fiercely committed to our core values of empowering everyone, practicing gratitude, building community, growing forward and laughing together. These core values align us in service of CorePower’s higher purpose – to power love from the inside out. They are our guiding principles; internal agreements we make as a CorePower team about how we interact with each other and our students. Living our core values means they guide all our activities, define our workplace culture, and ensure there are no missed opportunities to fulfill our higher purpose.
We embrace our differences and foster an inclusive space where everyone can reach their full potential. We uplift, inspire and guide one another. We make time to share the power of yoga together, celebrate milestones and find joy in the present moment.
A CorePower Yoga Instructor delivers an extraordinary experience. As an instructor you will provide this experience through a welcoming front desk check-in process, guiding students through a CPY-aligned class, and supporting each individual student to live their power. Our instructors cultivate supportive relationships by making themselves accessible and approachable, ensuring student safety, and embodying the CPY Core Values at all times.
Essential job duties
Teach a minimum of two (2) CorePower Yoga classes per week for a minimum of 4 hours of time in studio
Serve the community and provide a consistent safe space for all to practice by educating students on alignment, offering modifications for postures as appropriate, and consistently using CPY cueing formulas
Instructors are scheduled to be at the studio 30 minutes before and after each class to read studio communications, plan CPY aligned classes using the CPY Class Planning and support tools and connect with the student community
Connect with students 30 minutes prior to class beginning and 30 minutes after class ends in support of students’ personal growth, growth of the studio, and all current CPY initiatives
As a member of the CPY teacher community you are the face of our students CPY experience. We ask that you welcome students, check students in to class, navigate any POS transactions, process front desk duties, and ensure that our students have an overall memorable experience
Perform specific cleaning tasks as assigned to ensure CPY Smart Health Protocol standards of cleanliness are observed to ensure student and employee safety
Contribute to a supportive and fun studio environment by upholding the CPY Core Values and fostering positive working relationships
Act as an in-studio ambassador for all current CPY initiatives and business streams including but not limited to All Access Membership, programming and lifestyle programs, retail, etc.
At CorePower Yoga, we live our power by showing the world the incredible life-changing things that happen when you root an intensely physical workout in the mindfulness of yoga. This is our promise. We are the nation’s largest yoga studio brand with over 200 locations across the country, digital livestream and on-demand classes, and thousands of passionate yoga teachers sharing the transformative power of our practice.
As a team, we love seeing the magic that happens in a CorePower Yoga class when physical meets mindful and strive to create a work environment that mirrors the balance, empowerment and community experienced in our yoga studios.
This job description is not necessarily an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, skills, duties, requirements, efforts, or working conditions associated with the job. While this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job, we reserve the right to revise the job or to require that other or different tasks be performed. Corepower yoga is an equal opportunity employer of all qualified individuals, including minorities, bipoc, lgbtq+, veterans & individuals with disabilities.
Corepower yoga provides reasonable accommodation and/Or modification to disabled individuals to assist in the application process. Any individual requiring accommodation/Modification to complete this application should contact human resources at help.corepoweryoga.com. [http://Help.corepoweryoga.com]
Candidates must possess a yoga teacher training certificate (200-hour minimum, with specific continuing education requirements depending on the completion date) and current CPR/AED certification. Essential duties require the ability to lead physical activity for up to 1.5 hours, withstand heat up to 104 degrees in heated classes, and perform physical tasks like lifting up to 25 lbs.
Market context
In California, yoga teacher roles are often competitive where schools, studios, and wellness programs look for instructors who can safely lead classes and adapt to varied student needs. This role stands out for its certification requirements, including a 200-hour minimum yoga teacher training certificate and current CPR/AED certification, plus the ability to lead physical activity for up to 1.5 hours in warm conditions. Review the AI-summarized requirements and benefits here to save time, then confirm your training dates and continuing education status before applying.